HCV LUNCHTIME SERIES 

Learning Alongside AI: Insights from the Cutting Edge

The HCV Lunchtime Series provides unique opportunities to hear cutting-edge learnings from Harvard alumni and friends who are having a positive impact on the world. For our third event of 2026, we are very blessed to have Dr. Tessa Forshaw share her research and emerging thoughts from the Graduate School of Education. 
 

Tessa is a cognitive scientist exploring how we work, learn, and create across the lifespan. Especially alongside AI. She seeks to help us understand how this technology is impacting us developmentally and how we can adjust designs, systems, and practices to ensure human flourishing. 
 

Tessa is the Faculty Chair of the Workforce and Workplace Learning Concentration and the Faculty Director of the Workforce Learning and Innovation Initiative at The Harvard Graduate School of Education. Co-founding Scholar of Next Level Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Teacher of Design Thinking & Innovation at Harvard DCE, Stanford GSB, and Stanford d.school. Former designer at IDEO CoLab and Accenture. Award-winning designer (Core77, Fast Company), TEDx speaker, and co-author of Innovation-ish (Wiley,2025).

Event Details
Date: Thursday 22 October 2026 at 12:30 pm
Time: Arrive from 12:15pm for a 12:45pm start. Concluding at 1:30pm.
Where: Room 4.1, Ross House, 247-251 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.  
Price: $15 for members, $40 for non-members
Book: CLICK HERE to book 
BYO Lunch and Drinks (many cafes downstairs)